Includes bibliographical references and index

Political leadership / Richard Sakwa -- Parliament and the dominant party regime / Thomas F. Remington -- The regions under Putin and after / Nikolai Petrov and Darrell Slider -- The law in post-Putin Russia / Kathryn Hendley -- The media and political developments / Maria Lipman and Michael McFaul -- Russia's population perils / Timothy Heleniak -- The oligarchs and economic development / Peter Rutland -- Crime, organized crime, and corruption / Louise Shelley -- Agriculture in the late Putin period and beyond / Stephen K. Wegren -- Russia's foreign policy / Andrei P. Tsygankov -- Russia and Central Asia's multivector foreign policies / Gregory Gleason -- Putin, Medvedev, and the Russian military / Dale R. Herspring / Conclusion : whither Putinism? / Stephen K. Wegren and Dale R. Herspring

Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis available of contemporary Russia and the challenges facing Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitri Medvedev. Leading scholars offer a full-scale reassessment of Putin's leadership, exploring Russia's ongoing daunting domestic and international concerns. Evaluating the regime's continued efforts to rebuild a country once on the verge of collapse, they consider a comprehensivearray of economic, political, and social issues, along with Putin himself, whose popularity

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